Governance of Crime and Insecurity in an Anxious Age: The Trans-European and the Local (From Crime and Insecurity: The Governance of Safety in Europe, P 27-51, 2002, Adam Crawford, ed. -- See NCJ-197556)

• NCJ Number: 197557
• Author(s): Adam Crawford
• Date Published: 2002
• Length: 25 pages
• Sale Source: Willan Publishing
• Publication Format: Book (Hardbound)
• Publication Type: Legislation/Policy Analysis
• Language: English
• Country: United Kingdom

Annotation

This chapter examines trends in the "governance of safety" across Europe, which manifest not only the links between various levels above and below the nation-state in tiers of multiple governance, but also a fusing of public and private interests as non-state actors are drawn into new networks of control.

Abstract

This trend away from the centralization of security measures in the governmental structures of the nation-state raises a number of issues. First, does the involvement of the private sector as well as other non-state actors in crime control, prevention, and policing undermine democratic oversight and accountability for these forms of governance? Second, does transnational (European-wide) crime prevention and policing represent the "supranationalization" of governance or a transnational regulatory regime with its own techniques and styles of governance? Third, does this trend represent the demise of the nation-state in Europe, or does it involve certain supranational tendencies that duplicate or complement the activities of the nation-state, leaving them with a significant role in governance? It is clear that the national character of criminal justice in Europe has become more fragile, as there has been a "Europeanization" of security and crime concerns at a number of levels. This has stemmed from dominant and common concerns not only about transnational crimes but also localized crime. 4 notes and 64 references